| Bohmfalk Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching | Yale University | 2001 |
| Dean's Medical Education Farr Prize | Yale School of Medicine | 1996 |
| Nobility title of Chevalier/Ridder. | Kingdom of Belgium | 1996 |
| Foreign Honorary Member, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium | Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium | 1990 |
| Doctor Honoris Causa | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium | 1987 |
| Homer W. Smith Award
| American Society of Nephrology and the New York Heart Association | 1986 |
| Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge | Cambridge University, UK | 1978 |